Nov 8, 2011
Gov. Robert Bentley called for simplifying some elements of the state's strict new immigration law during a speech in Birmingham on Monday. Bentley, speaking to the Birmingham Business Alliance, did not have specifics on what would be changed, but The Associated Press reported him saying the central parts of...
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With Republicans who control the Alabama Legislature saying they are focused most of all on creating jobs in Alabama, one can't help but wonder why they would support an overreaching immigration law that is creating uncomfortably familiar publicity for the state, which may well be used against Alabama and...
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Portions of the nation's most harmful immigration law went into effect last month in Alabama, causing widespread fear and panic among the state's Latino population. It requires school officials to verify students' immigration status, prompting thousands of frightened Latino students not to show up for school.
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Since the implementation of the Alabama immigration law, our team here at America's Voice has been rotating through the Yellowhammer State, helping to organize a humanitarian response and collecting stories about how normal families have been affected by this monstrosity of a law.
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The news that Mitt Romney is deploying automated attack calls in Iowa against Rick Perry on immigration should come as little surprise, given Romney's hard-line stance on immigration thus far in the 2012 cycle. What is notable, however, is that the anti-Perry calls feature an Arizona sheriff named...
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The news that Mitt Romney is deploying automated attack calls in Iowa against Rick Perry on immigration should come as little surprise, given Romney's hard-line stance on immigration thus far in the 2012 cycle. What is notable, however, is that the anti-Perry calls feature an Arizona sheriff named...
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The news that Mitt Romney is deploying automated attack calls in Iowa against Rick Perry on immigration should come as little surprise, given Romney's hard-line stance on immigration thus far in the 2012 cycle. What is notable, however, is that the anti-Perry calls feature an Arizona sheriff named...
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Look out: Alabama is the target of a bunch of "outside agitators" again. You know, like when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers came here in the 1950s and '60s. Only this time, the "outside agitators" are here for a different civil rights issue.
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U.S. Justice Department officials said Friday the department is investigating complaints that Alabama's immigration law is running afoul of federal civil rights laws by denying children access to public education.
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One would think that if curbing illegal immigration was truly a state concern, the Legislature would pass a law that provided for training and funding for the various venues of enforcement.
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